Monday, January 02, 2006
9:53 PM
It was truly the highlight of the whole
For the past eight years, our class has been holding an annual Christmas Party, most notably featuring an elaborately planned (somewhat...) Pot Luck dinner and Gift Exchange game. We're usually made to come up with a gift request, as well as coerced into volunteering to bring a food item of our choice that has really been planned for us to bring beforehand. And everyone's expected to do so usually about one month in advance. Unfortunately, I was the main organizer of the party this year.
Well, to be honest, I didn't do much, but somehow, everything turned out just fantastic. The turnout was better than expected, there was no awkward long periods of silence and 'nothing to do' and the teachers stayed quite long, busy catching up with us and reminiscing about the good old secondary school days. It felt really good to feel sixteen again.
I'm not kidding when I said 'feel sixteen'. We were listening to 'Why you so like dat?' (some comedy radio programme featuring a very funny debate skit) on the radio, two of them were wrestling (above is actual footage of the wrestling in action), the teacher's children and some of us were playing with sparklers. And fire. If the party was held by the pool like all previous parties at Jean's house were, someone would've been thrown or voluntarily jumped into the pool, like all previous parties at Jean's house.
I asked for six-packs this year, wondering how dear Chun Han was going to pull that off for me, and he did with six-pack batteries, six-pack Yeo's Soya Bean Drink, six-pack A&W Root Beer, a Men's Health magazine with hunk and his six-packs, and a wry grin. And that was just one of the many interesting and sweet gift exchanges we had last night.
I wonder if we're going to be able to pull off one more next year, with the same spirit and warmth and all the fuzzy feeling that I (and I believe many of the rest of them) went home with that night.
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Meanwhile, it's time to start noticing gravity and muscle atrophy in camp. SOC (Standard Obstacle Course) is a coming.
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